Cleantech
Goodmans Cleantech lawyers understand the connection between technology, energy innovation and the business environment. We are intimately familiar with the economics of the Canadian energy-power industry, the applicable legal framework and the regulatory initiatives at play. Industry leaders turn to our experienced energy-power practitioners for their advice on regulatory compliance, corporate finance and securities, and M&A matters.
Our clients include regulators, developers, investors and entrepreneurs who develop and bring to market new energy materials and technologies. We partner with them to bring their ideas to market. We are committed to addressing our clients’ needs at every stage: from the earliest discovery or concept; through development, funding, partnerships, and large-scale utility operations; to public offerings and other capital events. Our lawyers have mastered the design, drafting, and negotiation of commercial agreements in clean and renewable energy projects, having worked with developers of renewable energy projects in Australia, Central America, the Middle East, and South Africa.
We also represent generators, distributors, transmitters and system operators before energy boards across Canada and have acted as advisors to those boards. Our energy regulatory lawyers and litigators represent major participants in the electricity sector in high-stakes proceedings and have appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada on multiple cases involving constitutional and other issues of significance to the industry.
Our lawyers collaborate in interdisciplinary teams to provide more cost-efficient and extraordinarily effective counsel. Our internal team assists clients with private equity financing transactions and to secure their valuable intellectual property rights. We guide clients through M&A transactions and other financing transactions. We also assist clients with joint ventures and financings of clean technology manufacturing facilities and renewable energy power generation projects.
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Banking and Financial Services
Conifex Biomass Power Project Refinancing
Goodmans LLP represented the syndicate of lenders in connection with the completion by Conifex Timber Inc.’s (TSX: CFF) wholly-owned subsidiary Conifex Power Limited Partnership of a $70 million… -
Mergers and Acquisitions
Also Energy, Inc.'s Acquisition of Locus Energy, Inc.
Goodmans LLP acted for AlsoEnergy, a leader in renewable energy software solutions, in its merger with Locus Energy, a solar monitoring and data analytics provider delivering solutions across the… -
Banking and Financial Services
Canaccord Genuity Acquisition Corp. Completes Qualifying Acquisition of Spark Power Corp.
Goodmans LLP represented Canaccord Genuity Acquisition Corp. (TSX: CGAC.UN, CGAC.WT) (CGAC), a special purpose acquisition corporation, in connection with its qualifying acquisition and merger with… -
Technology
ArcTern Ventures Invests in GreenMantra Technologies
Goodmans LLP represented ArcTern Ventures with respect to its investment in GreenMantra Technologies, a Canadian company utilizing a proprietary system to convert and “up-scale” waste… -
Cleantech
AMP Solar Group Establishes Solar Project Equity Financing Platform with Caledon Solar Investment Aggregator
Goodmans LLP acted for AMP Solar Group Inc. in the establishment of a $200 million solar project equity financing platform with Caledon Solar Investment Aggregator LP… -
Cleantech
OPG Sells Lakeview Lands
Goodmans LLP represented Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and Infrastructure Ontario in the sale of its 177-acre former coal-fired Lakeview Generating Station site in Mississauga to Lakeview Community…
Insights
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Cleantech
Province of Ontario Proposes Establishment of a Clean Energy Credit Registry
On August 2, 2022, Ontario’s Ministry of Energy released its proposal for a clean energy credit registry (the “Registry”) for public comment on the Environmental Registry of Ontario (ERO). The… -
Cleantech
Supreme Court of Canada Upholds Federal Government’s Carbon Price Backstop To Address “existential threat to human life”
On March 25, 2021, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) released its long-awaited decision in Reference re Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act. A majority of the SCC found that the federal… -
Cleantech
Canada's First Patent Collective Launches for the Cleantech Sector
Over the last several years, the federal government has touted its $85 million Intellectual Property Strategy (IP Strategy). One of the key pillars of the IP Strategy is $30 million in funding for… -
Cleantech
Government of Canada Publishes Revised Proposal for Greenhouse Gas Offset System
On July 2, 2020, the federal government published a discussion paper entitled Carbon Pollution Pricing: Considerations for Protocol Development in the Federal Greenhouse Offset System (the “Proposal… -
Cleantech
Alberta Court of Appeal Finds Federal Carbon Price Backstop Unconstitutional: The Stage is Set for a Heated Battle Before the Supreme Court
The Alberta Court of Appeal (ABCA) recently decided that the federal government did not have the constitutional authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.In the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing… -
Class Actions
Supreme Court of Canada Allows Environmental Class Action Seeking Only Punitive Damages to Proceed
The Supreme Court of Canada recently heard and dismissed an appeal in the “dieselgate” pollution class action case, Volkswagen Group Canada Inc. v. Association québécoise de lutte contre la pollution…
News & Events
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Cleantech
Richard Corley at the CORE Webinar: Sourcing and Sustainability
Globally, organizations are becoming more focused on sustainability and the adoption of sustainable practices. The common misconception is that this produces additional cost, but in fact this can be… -
Cleantech
Richard Corley at OsgoodePD's 2020 Negotiating and Drafting IT Agreements Certificate Program
Richard Corley will present at OsgoodePD's 2020 Negotiating and Drafting IT Agreements Certificate Program on "Understanding the IP in Your IT: Intellectual Property Considerations Critical to… -
Cleantech
Richard Corley at the TIME & LIFE Event
Richard Corley will be a panellist in the session "The Future of Innovation Roundtable" at Time & Life® is an invitation only black tie exchange about the future of Canada’s innovation…